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Marianna Martines
Boydell & Brewer 2010; US$ 75.00This first volume fully devoted to the life and work of musician Marianna Martines (1744-1813) is based largely on eighteenth-century printed sources, archival documents, and letters (including several by Martines herself, most of them published here for the first time). Godt here presents a detailed picture of the small but fascinating world Martines... more...
Media and Participation
Intellect 2011; US$ 20.00Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation... more...
Never the Hope Itself
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99A former NPR correspondent takes you into his own ghost-filled life as he reports on a region in turmoil. Gerry Hadden was training to become a Buddhist monk when opportunity came knocking: the offer of a dream job as NPR?s correspondent for Latin America. Arriving in Mexico in 2000 during the nation?s first democratic transition of power, he witnesses... more...
Griffith REVIEW 32
The Text Publishing Company 2011; US$ 19.95We live in an age of Wicked Problems, Exquisite Dilemmas. From the scale and scope of natural disasters to managing climate change, asylum seeking or river systems, new paradigms of transparency and power demand a new style of leadership, collaborative action and non-linear solutions. more...
A Teaspoon and an Open Mind
Penguin Books Ltd 2005; Not AvailableHow do you build a Tardis? What are the secrets of teleportation? Could Cybermen take over the world? Is telepathy possible ? even for an alien? Will extra-terrestrials one day visit planet earth on their travels through the galaxy? Can a robotic dog catch a cold ?? Take a journey with the Time Lords as Michael White guides us through the real science... more...
Mike Wallace
St. Martin's Press 2012; US$ 25.99The untold story of how the world's most feared TV reporter transformed his inner darkness into a journalistic juggernaut that riveted millions and redefined the landscape of television news In his four decades as the front man for 60 Minutes, the most successful show in television history, Mike Wallace earned the distinction of being hyperaggressive,... more...
The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat
Free Press 2012; US$ 16.00In the 1950s, America was a land of overdone roast beef and canned green beans?a gastronomic wasteland. Most restaurants relied on frozen, second-rate ingredients and served bogus ?Continental? cuisine. Authentic French, Italian, and Chinese foods were virtually unknown. There was no such thing as food criticism at the time, and no such thing as a... more...
Democracy under attack
The Policy Press 2011; US$ 110.00A unique insider's perspective of news production in Britain which gives readers a flavour of what goes on in news rooms, pressure groups, departmental policy divisions and parliament. more...
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Simon & Schuster 2008; Not AvailableBefore turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputation as an author. When her writing career suddenly took a turn for the worse, she conceived of the astonishing literary scheme that fooled even many of... more...
Technology and National Identity in Turkey
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 96.00Since the fall of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey has seen a complete re-imagining of its political, cultural and social landscape. Burce A elik argues that technology has been integral to this transformative process, showing how take-up of modern technologies, such as the cell or mobile phone, has been embraced particularly by those who most easily absorbed... more...









